2024 Winter Youth Olympics

XXIV Olympic Winter Games

File:Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.svg Emblem of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Host city	Gangwon Province, South Korea
Motto	Let's Make It Together (Korean: 같이합시다)
Events	81
Stadium	Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium

The 2024 Winter Youth Olympics (Korean: 2024년 동계 청소년 올림픽), officially known as the IV Winter Youth Olympic Games and commonly known as Gangwon 2024 (Korean: 강원 2024), are an upcoming youth winter multi-sport event scheduled to be held between 19 January and 2 February 2024 in Gangwon Province, South Korea.

The IOC's Future Host Commission named Gangwom as its preferred candidate for the Games, and entered into targeted dialogue with the region under the new Olympic bid process. Their hosting was ratified at the 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 10 January 2020. The events will be hosted at sites in Gangneung and Pyeongchang County, which previously hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. They will be the first Winter Youth Olympics held outside of Europe and the third overall Youth Olympics to be held in Asia after 2010 in Singapore and 2014 in Nanjing, China as well as the first Youth Olympics to be celebrated in South Korea.

Bidding process

Further information: Bids for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Gangwon was the only preferred host while Brașov, Granada, and Sofia were interested parties. They took part in the continuous dialogue with the IOC and the Future Host Commission. Gangwon was officially awarded the Games at the 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 10 January 2020; all of the requirements were fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Commission and the Executive Board. There were 82 members eligible to vote.

2024 Youth Olympic Games bidding results

Party	Nation	Votes
Gangwon	South Korea	79
None of bid		2
Absentation		1
Total		82

Development and preparation

Venues

Dragon Valley (Alpensia) Ski Resort

Much of the venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics will be used for these Games; most of the outdoor snow events will be held in the county of Pyeongchang, while the indoor ice events will be held in the nearby city of Gangneung. If the circumstances are allowed, the city of Wonsan, North Korea will be involved, and could be the host of some alpine events.

Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)

The Alpensia Sports Park in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang, will be the main focus of the games, like in 2018.

• Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre – ski jumping, Nordic combined, snowboarding (big air; opening and closing ceremonies (expected))
• Alpensia Biathlon Centre – biathlon
• Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre – cross-country skiing, Nordic combined
• Alpensia Sliding Centre – luge, bobsleigh, skeleton
• Yongpyong Alpine Centre – alpine skiing (slalom, giant slalom)

Additionally, a stand-alone outdoor sports venue was located in Bongpyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang:

• Phoenix Snow Park – freestyle skiing, snowboarding

Another stand-alone outdoor sports venue was located in neighboring Jeongseon county:

• High1 Resort – alpine skiing (downhill, super-G, combined)

Gangneung (coastal cluster)

The Gangneung Olympic Park, in the neighborhood of Gyo-dong in Gangneung city, includes four indoor sports venues, all in close proximity to one another.

• Gangneung Hockey Centre – ice hockey
• Gangneung Curling Centre – curling
• Gangneung Oval – long track speed skating
• Gangneung Ice Arena – short track speed skating, figure skating

The Games

Sports

The Youth Olympic Games will feature 7 sports and 15 disciplines. 81 events, there will be no mixed team events (NOCs) for the first time, 34 men's events, and 34 women's events. A mixed-gender relay event in cross-country skiing that will replace two cross-country cross freestyle events, a mixed-gender team event in Nordic combined and two 1,500m individual events in short track speed skating will also be contested for the first time.

• Biathlon (6) ()
• Bobsleigh
  • Bobsleigh (2) ()
  • Skeleton (2) ()
• Curling (2) ()
• Ice hockey (4) ()
• Luge (5) ()
• Skating
  • Figure skating (5) ()
  • Short track speed skating (7) ()
  • Speed skating (7) ()
• Skiing
  • Alpine skiing (9) ()
  • Freestyle skiing (12) ()
  • Snowboarding (9) ()
  • Cross-country skiing (5) ()
  • Nordic combined (3) ()
  • Ski jumping (3) ()

See also

• Winter sports:
  • 2018 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, Gangwon, South Korea
• Summer sports:
  • 1988 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea

External links

Preceded by Lausanne

Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024

Succeeded by TBA